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Viagra, Media, Rush Limbaugh
Rush gives mainstream media a cure for their erectile dysfunction
By Judi McLeodThursday, July 6, 2006
The drive-by media still don't get it: The story isn't that Rush Limbaugh overdosed on a single little Viagra pill. Guys, you don't get the full impact of the world's most famous sex medicine by keeping a bottle around for seven months in your briefcase or sock drawer, you have to actually take it. The story isn't that Rush Limbaugh takes Viagra. It's that Rush Limbaugh is Viagra.
The day after July 4 when even malcontent mainline media types should have been in fairly good humour, (surely not all of them were nursing hangovers), they were feverishly rushing all over Rush again.
It's not as if the day after toasting the Stars and Stripes with Miller's beer was scarce on news. There was Kim Jong Il's long-range Taepodong-2 missile, which fizzled out shortly after takeoff, "This just in" news from Aspen, Colorado heralding Ken Lay's fatal coronary. And that's not even to mention Cindy Sheehan's hunger strike for peace or New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's contention that the Big Apple would be dead in the water without immigrants. For the media uninitiated, Kim Jong Il is the delusional and deranged despot spoiling to nuke you, and Lay was the face of the Enron scandal.
But to the sheeple of the media, a bottle of Viagra in Rush Limbaugh's luggage, Round Two was the big scoop of the day.
Thanks to a prissy Palm Beach Post Staff Report, we learned that "Viagra is used to treat erectile dysfunction".
Some media reports referred to radio's most popular personality as a "drug addict". In a letter explaining why he would not be charged over Viagra, Chief Assistant Staff Attorney Paul H. Zacks called Rush "Case No. 06WA3733 and "the suspect".
Now that the news of his not being charged was released, every little detail of Rush's life was in his own words, media "regurgitated". One media outlet, whose name is not worth mentioning, even suggested that the radio star's hearing loss problems were related to an addiction to prescription pills.
The same media who depended on ratting bureaucrats to spoonfeed them the Rush caught with Viagra story, jumped with full speed into a second spoonfed feeding frenzy,
Very few colleagues tried to come to Rush's rescue. But last week, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly came to the defense of his radio competitor, saying authorities were unjustly targeting him for prosecution.
"This is malicious, and this is unnecessary," said O'Reilly. "I can only conclude that in Palm Beach, where Mr. Limbaugh lives, they're out to get this guy.
"It was a malicious, cheap, cheap tactic by Palm Beach authorities, and they ought to be ashamed of themselves," he said.
Problem is, Mr. O'Reilly officious bureaucrats with the decency to be ashamed are as scarce as Tasmanian devils in Central Park.
Talking about how far the media has taken the story on his radio show yesterday, Limbaugh said, "They hate me, folks. As I said last week, I expect them to want bad things to happen to me, and I expect them not to like me. I have targeted them for 18 years. It's quite natural that they do this. I do not expect objectivity or fairness from these people where I'm concerned at all."
That's the by and large liberal media sentiment on Rush Limbaugh. But I can personally attest to the fact that Rush Limbaugh is loved by legions of average Americans. A column I wrote last week entitled Being Rush Limbaugh brought in more letters than this site could handle. Their thread was basically the same. "Rush trumps the mainline media."
Now the drive-by media has a reason to hate Rush Limbaugh. Fearful of news that is not politically correct, they went out on a run to take down Rush.
Wait `till it hits home that it took a Rush Limbaugh to give the backbiting boys of the mainstream media a sure cure for their advanced case of Erectile Dysfunction.
Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck and The Rant. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com
